UHS merit list for medical admissions 2010-11

Girls secure 67pc seats in medical colleges
Lahore, Nov 30: The merit list for admission to medical and dental colleges of Punjab for session 2010-11,
issued by the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Monday, gives a lot
of food for thought for the government as 67.40 percent seats are
secured by the female students.

The merit list revealed that a total
of 1,916 (67.40 percent) female candidates had secured open merit seats
in 18 public sector medical and dental colleges of Punjab for the
session 2010-11 while on the other hand, the male students could only
secure 926 seats (32.60 percent) of the total number of seats in the
province.

There is one public sector Fatima Jinnah Medical College,
Lahore, and one in private sector University Medical College,
Faisalabad, which are exclusively reserved for female students whereas
the rest of the public and private medical/dental institutions in Punjab
are offering co-education. However, there is not a single
medical/dental college in public or private sector exclusively reserved
for admissions of male candidates in Punjab, which is dubbed as gender
discrimination of the reverse order.

Medical professionals are
extremely worried about the emerging scenario, which has threatened the
very existence of health sector as majority of female doctors either
quit profession after their marriage or join only certain specialties
such as gynaecology, dermatology and paediatrics, and they never prefer
to perform their duties in remote areas whereas male doctors, which are
being produced in very short numbers, are leaving abroad for lack of
proper service and salary structure in the country. Therefore, they
suggest establishing more medical/dental colleges exclusively for male
students to produce male doctors to cater to the ever-growing need of
medical professionals in all specialties of medical and surgical
specialties in the province. The government should either file a review
petition in the court to give more weight to male candidates in
admissions to public medical/dental colleges in the province. Besides,
they suggest that the female candidates should be "forced" to practice
in medical and dental fields.

Earlier, speaking at a press conference
here at university premises, UHS Vice-Chancellor Prof. Malik Hussain
Mubbashar announced that the last merit for MBBS was set at 81.7727 and
for BDS at 81.6273 percent in public sector medical/dental colleges in
the province. He said that a total of 7,303 applications were received,
from 1st to 7th November, from all those candidates, who had scored 75
percent or above aggregate marks, calculated by adding 70 percent of
their FSc or equivalent marks and 30 percent of their entrance test
score. These candidates competed for 2,842 MBBS and 175 BDS seats in
public sector medical and dental colleges of the Punjab on an open merit
basis. Besides, 60 candidates applied for 20 seats reserved for the
disabled and 660 applied against 61 seats reserved for six
under-developed districts of the Punjab, namely Muzzafargarh, Rajanpur,
Lodhran, Bhakkar, Layyah and D.G. Khan, he added.

Prof Mubbashar
further said the King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Lahore remained
the top choice of the candidates with merit for the college closing at
87.2091 percent, Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC) Lahore remained at
the second position with last merit of 85.4727 percent. The last merit
of the Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) Lahore was 84.0909
percent, Fatima Jinnah Medical College (FJCM) Lahore 83.9182 percent,
Nishtar Medical College (NMC) Multan 83.6273 percent, Punjab Medical
College (PMC) Faisalabad 83.1091 percent, Rawalpindi Medical College
(RMC) Rawalpindi 83.0182 percent, Quaid-e-Azam Medical College (QMC)
Bahawalpur 82.5909 percent, Sargodha Medical College (SMC) Sargodha
82.4909 percent, Nawaz Sharif Medical College (NSMC) Gujrat 82.3182
percent, Sheikh Zayed Medical College (SZMC) Rahimyar Khan 82.1636
percent, de'Montmorancy College of Dentistry (DCD) Lahore 81.7636
percent, Nishtar Institute of Dentistry (NID) Multan 81.6727 percent and
that of Dental Section, Punjab Medical College (DSPMC) Faisalabad
remained at 81.6273 percent.

The UHS VC maintained that four newly
established medical colleges in Sahiwal, Gujranwala, Sialkot and D.G.
Khan got overwhelming response from the public as a number of candidates
opted for admission to these colleges. He said that last merit for
Sahiwal Medical College was 81.9545 percent, for D.G. Khan Medical
College 81.7727 percent, Sialkot Medical College 81.8364 percent and for
Gujranwala Medical College the last merit remained at 82.0545 percent.

To
a question about private medical/dental colleges conducting admissions
before display of first merit list for public sector medical/dental
colleges in Punjab, he said the private medical colleges were not
allowed to conduct admissions before the display of merit list for
public medical colleges, adding that the UHS would disaffiliate those
private medical colleges, which had conducted admissions before public
sector medical colleges in the province.

"The UHS will take stern
action on any complaint in this regard and private institutions, if
acknowledged dues from students, will have to return their money or face
disaffiliation," he said, adding that the UHS would also not register
candidates, with less than 60 percent marks, of the private
medical/dental colleges in the province.

Prof Mubbashar further said
that a total of 364 applicants claimed to be Muslim Hafiz-e-Quran and a
structured test was conducted of all such claimants by a board
consisting of 07 eminent Huffaz-e-Quran. The test went on for 06 days
and it was video graphed to maintain transparency and as a result of the
test, 142 candidates were declared Huffaz-e-Quran and awarded 20 marks
each which were added to their FSc score for the final calculation of
merit.

"It is extremely sad state that people tell a lie even in
claiming to be Hafiz-e-Quran to secure admissions to medical colleges,"
he said and added that additional 20 marks, allocated to Hafiz-e-Quran,
eventually made a huge difference of 1.4 percent in determining the
merit for admissions to medical colleges.

Similarly, the UHS VC
added, three committees, each consisting of five senior medical
professors examined 60 candidates who claimed to be disabled for 03 days
in order to verify their disabilities. The committee for verification
of physical disabilities was headed by Prof. Faisal Masood, the
committee for visual disability by Prof. Muhammad Tayyab and committee
for hearing impairments was headed by Prof. Muhammad Mujeeb. The
committee declared 31 candidates to be disabled and the last merit for
admission against seats reserved for the disabled remained at 67.2818
percent, he informed.

As for seats reserved for underdeveloped
districts, Prof Mubbashar stated that a total of 234 candidates had
applied for 10 seats reserved for Muzzafargarh district, the last merit
was 83.7545 percent; for Layyah 124 candidates applied, last merit was
83.4455 percent; for 09 seats of Lodhran district 39 applied and the
merit was 80.1364 percent; 47 candidates applied for Bhakkar district
with last candidate admitted at the score of 80.5000 percent; 56
candidates had applied for Rajanpur district, the merit was 82.7364
percent for city and 63.0182 percent for tribal area; and for 13 seats
of D.G. Khan 160 candidates had applied with last merit was 84.4818
percent for city area and 80.8273 percent for tribal area seats.

Prof.
Mubbashar said the documents and certificates of all the candidates who
were being admitted or who were likely to be admitted were verified by
the university from their respective boards and district authorities.
The UHS had sent its own team in each board for the verification of
certificates. He said the candidates who had applied for admission
against seats reserved for underdeveloped districts were required to
submit certificates, issued by the heads of the institutions from which
he/she completed his/her primary, secondary and higher secondary
education, duly verified by the EDO (Education) and DCO of the
respective district, with the application form.

The UHS VC claimed
that last year, about 570 candidates were disqualified from admissions
after their FSc certificates were found bogus. This year, he stated,
only two candidates, namely Muhammad Aamir Raza s/o Zafar Ali from
Faisalabad and Fahad Sarfraz s/o Muhammad Ashraf from Lahore had
submitted forged FSc certificates with their applications. These
candidates had been permanently disqualified for admission to medical
colleges and their cases had been referred to the Anti-Corruption Unit
for necessary action, he added.

Prof. Mubbashar said that the UHS had
completed the admission process with utmost care and confidentiality
under the principles of merit, justice, equity and transparency. He said
the process and procedures of entrance test and admissions had been
institutionalised by the university for generations to come.

"We have
made standard operating procedures for each and every step. Syllabus
for next year's entrance test is being published and it will be widely
distributed among all stakeholders, including colleges, institutions,
boards etc, so that students are aware of it well ahead of time," he
concluded.

Your Comments
"These results are rediculas, only the daughters and sons of well off families have been alloted admissions"
Name: rabia mahmmod
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City, Country: Lahore, Pakistan

"Medical colleges seats should be allocated to male and female candidates according to the requirement of urban and rural areas whereas females do not go to serve in rural areas (80% of the population)and most of them even leave profession after marriage.Moreover, two colleges specially meant for females and equal opportunity available to them in rest of the colleges.Hence it is necessary to revise the present policy.(1)seats allocation for male and female.(2)Quota for urban and rural areas seats like in other provinces SINDH,etc.(3)Equal opportunities and facilities for the rural areas students like urban areas.This may be the principle of equity, justice and merit in true sense.Thank you very much.M.Akram.
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